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33-year-old Brazilian national Cristiano Ribeiro De Moura pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting and Social Security card fraud and producing false identification documents after allegedly selling four counterfeit Lawful Permanent Resident cards, or green cards, and four counterfeit Social Security cards last July and August.
The man who had been living in Framingham was arrested on Sept. 6 and brought to federal court in Boston the same day. He had been in prison for the last 8 months was sentenced to “time served” and a year of supervised release.
He was netted as part of a Homeland Security Investigation in June of 2019 where he utilized the “WhatsApp” phone app to offer counterfeit documents for $350 to confidential informants for the agency’s Document and Benefit Fraud Task Force.
The confidential informants who were in the country illegally made a deal with Homeland Security and made arrangements with Ribeiro De Moura to buy the false documents as well as provide them with software to make more documents during a meeting that was secretly videotaped.
